Thanks to a few here that recommended me to wait for the new CPU releases im extremely happy to announce that i will be going with the 5950X for my new build. At this point my old budget has already been blown away. A 3090 in the mix with at least 128GB of ram should be plenty for FS2020 and all my video editing needs.

1 hour ago, rtodepart said:

Thanks to a few here that recommended me to wait for the new CPU releases im extremely happy to announce that i will be going with the 5950X for my new build. At this point my old budget has already been blown away. A 3090 in the mix with at least 128GB of ram should be plenty for FS2020 and all my video editing needs.

Oh, that would be a sweet rig indeed.. Eyeing the new Ryzens myself even though I am perfectly happy with my 3900x... We'll see.

Shouldn't the 5900X be better for gaming, or you might want to use it for other things as well.

Ahh, I just saw that you are doing video editing, then 5090X is probably a perfect choice.

Edited October 10, 20205 yr by Ixoye

Having built my current PC back in March with a 3900X and 2070 Super GPU coupled with 32Gb @ 3600Mhz RAM, I'm getting really decent FPS (30+) in Flightsim at mostly Ultra with one or two sliders pulled back a little to their High setting.

BUT, I'm also so tempted with the upgrades coming out now.  Without the need to upgrade motherboard, I could go to the 5900X (or even 5950X, though that would be total overkill), coupled with the new RTX 3080 (again tempting to go all out for the 3090 but again, probably overkill).

Want to maximise potential of the current PC in terms of motherboard (X570), ram etc, and I think this would take it as far as it'll likely go before a complete rebuild next time.  Might as well spend the cash that would have gone on holidays and travel given that's off the cards in the current circumstances...